SHOW STOPPER!!!!

Today, I came into work as any other day (7.30am. Well, yes I come to work this early and its because that's when we all start our work at this client site. Otherwise, I am not at all a morning person..but have managed to do the early attendance on this assignment) and I cannot log into my company's network. So, no emails, no portals, no network absolutely. Everything was down, it took more than couple hours for "xxx" network to get fixed. In these hours with the network outage, we all did not know what to do (we 10 of us sit in the same room), some are trying to discuss work, some pretending to work offline etc. But I sat there blank and was thinking how emails drive our daily work and prioritize. We are (atleast IT) so much dependent on emails to tell us what's important and what's not in our daily life.

Communication is for sure a show stopper!! (be it technology beating technology or something else beating technology) :) ...

A POEM!!!!

I loved this poem ......

One Art

by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

UNEXPECTED!!!

Do you like the unexpected? Like, you are trying to decode something for days..you are almost ready to give up and suddenly it starts working or you are watching a movie and a particular scene brings smile to your face..where you did not except that expression or Someone walking by looks at you n compliments or Someone gets u lunch when you are busy on a conference call - The unexpected is very sweet. We also have the bad unexpected things that happen to us - Like u miss your train or flight delayed or canceled or someone at work is in a bad mood and you wonder what the F*** did I do (even though its not u) ...and you think these things happen only to me why? ..

Appreciate the 'UNEXPECTED' good or bad, we will not have anything to complain lol!!! :) ....

FINDING BALANCE!!!!

My brother and I, when in school, we had this lady who used to walk us to school and back home every day (school was just 5 blocks away). The lady (I don't remember her name) had strict instructions from my mom that she would not let go our hands till we get to our destination (this was due to traffic etc). I would let myself of her hook and walk on the pavement edge (She used to yell at me to stay close to her). I liked it when I did the little balancing thing on the pavement edge. My little feet would slip off and I would get back on the edge again. I did that every day to and from School. I was 8 and my brother must have been 5 or something. I don't remember when i stopped slipping of the pavement edge but I always liked to do that little dance on my way. Subconsciously sometimes even now, I do walk on the pavement edge balancing myself for fun. How I wish, I found that balance in life subconsciously? Well...life is all about balancing, isn't it?

Last night, my friends and I decided to watch this movie 'Eat Pray Love'. After a stressful day, we were still debating if we should go for this late night movie (10:15pm, it was just couple blocks away and NYC is always busy). Anyways, we decide we would go and if its too much, we will sleep it off through the movie.

I felt the movie was slow at the beginning but Julia Roberts has done a great job. Its a very well taken movie. Gist - She, like any other human being, is trying to strike a balance in her life with what she has to do, likes to do and whom does she really love etc. She gives up everything goes around the world, in the process meets different people, culture etc. Finally, she is able to strike a balance in her life. The movie was not about traveling around the world to find what you want but I feel, it was all about balancing ones life.

How many of us are in a relationship because we just got there or because we have to keep up with it or keep doing stuff just because everyone else is doing or because you have to be there for these people or this job etc etc etc...'is this really what I want to do?' is what one should ask.

All of us are in search of something and we name it as 'Happiness' (search is on constantly for...maybe LOVE, MONEY, JOB, CHANGE, PASSION, AMBITION etc etc). We postpone our happiness, saying I will be happy if I had this or that etc. Can anyone define happiness? Happiness is different to different people. But, do we strike a balance with each other and accept that happiness of others?....

The movie ends with a beautiful quote,"To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life".